Data Center Safety Plan

While data center operations personnel have their own fair share of safety issues to worry about, prioritizing safety is also important on the construction side of the business.

Because construction teams tend to work on new sites for every project, it’s understandable that they’ll think mostly in broad strokes about how the work will get done rather than familiarizing themselves with the nuances and details of each particular location. After doing the same kind of work repeatedly across projects and sites, it’s easy for construction workers to become comfortable with the risks of their jobs — heights or unstable objects and surfaces, among many others — and get overconfident and lax on safety.

While other industries may have been more eager and faster to adopt safety-first messaging and business practices, the movement within the data center space is starting to gain momentum.

Data center developers and operators, along with other forward-thinking industry leaders, are increasingly realizing that workplace safety isn't the hindrance to productivity and profitability they once thought it was, but rather a business enabler and the right thing to do.

Over time, they'll recognize that baking safety into the entire data center lifecycle — from design and construction through to maintenance and daily management — will chip away at the longstanding but mistaken notion that speed and safety are mutually exclusive. More importantly, adopting a safety-always philosophy will help to transform their business culture into one that enables them to improve productivity, profitability, and work quality, all while reducing their risk of injury to their people and their brand.